Import multiple skp files as scenes in sketchup for sketchup

tallbridgeguy

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has developed a plugin to import multiple sketchup files as scenes into one sketchup file?

I know sketchyphysics is not everyone's cup of tea but with such a plugin I could render sketchyphics scenes in Kerkythea.

Steps:

record sketchyphysics animation
export sketchyphysics as sketchup files (typically a short animation runs up to 500 skp files)
Now open the first (output) sketchup file and run a ruby that does

a) select all the files in a directory
b) for each file, it creates a scene and moves the contents of that scene to a corresponding layer.

For example, import
file 1 on scene 1, layer 1 - only layer 1 turned on for this scene 1
file 2 on scene 2, layer 2 - only layer 2 shown on this scene 2
file 3 on scene 3, layer 3 - etc,

THis would allow me to export all animation scenes through the Kerkythea sketchup plugin and render all the scenes as batch files. (and yes I realize Twilight does this natively)

Is this possible? Has anyone used sketchup or thea render for sketchyphysics files?

Thanks in advance!

S

Fedgerick

Curious of if you figured out how to do that. That process could make a lot of things possible. I've been looking for alternate ways to render sketchyphysics and seriously, good luck.